1749 in Wales

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Events from the year 1749 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Frederick
• Princess of Wales – Augusta

Events

• 8 April - Charles Wesley marries Sarah Gwynne of Garth.[1]
• 19 July - "Madam" Sidney Griffith accompanies Howell Harris to the Llangeitho association - the beginning of a relationship that would cause considerable controversy.
• 23 September - Harris finds "Madam Griffith" awaiting him at Trevecka, with the news that her husband, now bankrupt, has beaten her and thrown her out of the house for refusing to give him any more money.
• December - Benjamin Franklin notes that printer Hugh Meredith owes him money.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Lewis Evans - A Map of Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York and the three Delaware counties, including notes on thunder and lightning[3]
• John Jones (controversialist) - Free and Candid Disquisitions[4]
• Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse[5]

Births

• 6 April - Moses Griffiths, draughtsman, engraver and water colourist (died 1819)
• 12 May - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (died 1809)
• 13 May - Prince Frederick of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1765)
• 23 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1789)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Bayly, MP for Anglesey 1784-90 (died 1814)[6]
  • Edward Jones, musician (died 1779)[7]
  • Thomas Owen, Anglican priest and translator (died 1812)
  • Charles Symmons, poet (died 1826)

Deaths

• May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
• 3 July - Sir William Jones, mathematician, 74
• August - Angharad James, poet, 72
• 26 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57(injuries sustained in a fall from a horse)[8]
• 22 December - Richard Smalbroke, former Bishop of St David's, 77[9]

References

1. "The Marriage of Charles and Sarah Wesley". ThePoetPreacher. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
2. Lemay, J.A. Leo The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730, Volume 1, p. 377 (2006)
3. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
4. Daniel Williams. "Jones, John (1700-1770)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
5. Stefka Ritchie (7 November 2018). Samuel Johnson’s Pragmatism and Imagination. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-5275-2109-4.
6. "BAYLY, Nicholas (1749-1814), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
7. Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Educational Publishing Company. p. 229.
8. The American Harp Journal. American Harp Society. 1981. p. 13.
9. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.